VT Outfitter

Great photos! It wont be long now, season is getting closer everyday!

Pure adrenaline pumping rack-a-sarous! I wish you the best of luck.

I love my deer hunting, but squirrels are great practice runs to prepare for deer season. The weapon changes and maybe the seriousness, but all the same gear is used for me anyway. So I get to do some dry runs to see if I need or don't need something. Squirrel season is also a great hunt for youths to give them action. Plus if they get a case of the wiggles, not so devastating when the squirrel holes up. Just wait 20 minutes, and they come back out. I have not been hunting squirrel in many years as we have had a bot fly problem in my area. I am sure it doesn't harm the meat, but I just cant bring myself to eat a squirrel that has bugs crawling under the skin. I wont kill something unless I will eat it. Last season my daughter shot a few and they were clean, so today we sighted in the 22's. Both my girls are excited to go, and so am I.

Stupid Dump Ducks!

Nice and cozy, looks great! I am just finishing a project up myself. It started as a simple box blind at the top of the mountain, then things just got out of hand. Now there is a wood stove, bunks, shooting windows, table, and a porch. It went from 4x4 to 10x12 with a 3 foot porch. Where is the line drawn between a deer hunting box blind and a hunting cabin? I'm fairly sure I crossed that line.

Cool pics! The first photo it looks like he is trying to figure out how to climb up to the stand, better check it with your flash light first morning before you start climbing up yourself!

My guess field score would be 145+/-. 64 inches per side +/- and spread of 17 inches. Do you have pics for the last four season so you can see how much he has grown each year?

I love my camo gear, but honestly, if it was hunter orange I would still have bought it. Water proof, wind proof, light weight, breathable, quiet while moving or when branches scratch against it, and they fit me perfectly. I too have shot many deer with hunter orange on at distances of 40-100 yards. But, I have also been busted with the wind in my face by deer at 20 yards wearing orange. I chocked it up to no breakup in the vest, just solid orange. However, I have been camoed up and could count the deers eye lashes and not spook off. Wearing camo gives me the confidence to feel like I can disappear in the woods. You should wear what ever accomplishes that goal for yourself.

Good call!

Are you hunting in the Lake George area?

Sweet catches!

compass back pack or waist pack grunt call good sharp knife comfortable boots that are water poof and breathable Hot Hands for those cold days maybe a ground blind or tree stand with climbing sticks trail camera ratcheting pruners handsaw 15 ft of strong rope wound up tight to not take up a lot of pack space quality head strap light face mask in camo ball cap in camo gloves in camo fleece base layers If I had to pick only 3 items to carry, it would be compass, sharp knife, and quality head strap light.

He would be a smasher in m woods, I hope you get him and good luck!

Awesome fish pics and I love the back ground, no other boats!

I manage just over 8,000 acres. I use 6-8 ground blinds, 20-25 lock on stands, 3-5 ladder stands, 2 permanent box blinds, and 4 climbers in an average season. It depends on deer activity and movements during pre season which will determine how many of each I use. Lock on stands make up the majority of the stands used, but a few clients prefer ground blinds and box blinds so having options for different hunting styles and changing wind directions. I use the 4 climbers every season to adjust from a lock on position if the deer are traveling just out of range as it is easier to move and quieter. I move stands and blinds constantly through the season to stay with the current deer movements, from food source in early season, to bedding and rut searching corridors, back to food sources in late season. During deer season, I only book a maximum of 5 clients (4 is ideal) per week, so my system of stands and stand to acre ratio works for what I am doing.

That is Frickin' hilarious! LMAO funny!

In the areas that I manage with my outfitting company, I have had a few calls to help look for deer that have crossed into one of my properties. Being that I have been in my area hunting and raising a family, I have made many friends and I know just about everyone in town and in the surrounding towns. So if someone had shot a deer close to my properties I would probably hear about it if they couldn't find it. They would call me or I would hear about it at the local general store in town around the coffee pot. I guess if I found a downed deer, and I couldn't find the hunter that had shot it in time to save the meat, and it was rotten I would probably tie the head off to a tree with a cable or chain. Then try to find the person that wanted to have that buck and reunite them. A question does arrive for me though. If someone had shot a good buck, and you have lived in your area for long enough to know most of the hunters, it would be strange to not hear a story about "the one that got away" at some point down the road. Any respected hunter would expend all legal means of assets to recover a shot deer. That being said, there is a chance that the buck was not harvested legally (ie. shot from the road, shot on posted property, shot after dark, ect...), hence the lack of effort to recover him.

Pellet stoves are the cats meow. I get a little bit of wood dust on the floor when I dump a new bag in, but for the most part it is a pretty clean form of heat. All the nice qualities of a wood stove, without the hassle of cutting and splitting 8 cord of wood every year. Plus no bark, no bugs, no dirt. However, though I don't have a wood stove at my home, between the hunting camps the family home wood stoves and my friends that ask for help every year I end up cutting/splitting/stacking 20+ cord a year. And that is a good deal dropped at your door step, I pay $250 a ton and have to go get them a mile down the road with a trailer behind my truck.

The world has changed my friends. The days of picking up a hitch hiker or taking someone's word for truth or even stopping to help a motorist change a flat tire are just about finished. It sounds as though the young lady you helped may have been legit, at least until she got out of your sight. I am a very generous person that is usually first in line to help those in need. It bothers me greatly to refuse those who ask for help. But after being taken advantage of numerous times, your guard goes up against anyone that approaches you. I believe you did a good thing, even if you never see that money come back to you. These are sad times.

To be honest, I don't even know what als is. I thought it was some ice making and sales company. I agree with you on donating money to where I want to. My wife and I volunteer every year for Camp Takumta in South Hero VT. It is a camp for kids with cancer that's gives them a chance to go swimming, canoeing, play games, and hang out with other kids that wont ask them how things are going all the time. Its a place that gives the kids a chance to forget about the medical side of their lives for a few weeks. With many other volunteers, we raise 12-15 thousand with one event. Its a lot of fun and I look forward to going every year.

I really enjoy sitting in a weather proof comfy box blind in places that have good populations of whitetails. In places where I have seen good bucks on camera or scouting gives me the motivation to sit all day. Plus watching other small bucks and Doe's make their way past and paying attention to what they do, say, eat, act to absorb as much as I can. I really enjoy a freezing cold day with little to no wind. Your breath floats away and temporarily warms your nose. A nice little heater to take the edge off and warm up a lunch. Some yummy homemade cookies and a mountain dew at my side. Closing my eyes during mid day and resting, waiting for the sound of crunching to approach. God I love this sport.

Your method takes a lot of self control and patience. It is very difficult to go ultra slow from A to B. Take pride in your ability, not many can do this,

I have only taken a few bears in my life. One with a rifle during deer season that I saw moving through the open woods on its way to bedding I believe. The other was with a bow, hunting over a natural food source of apples at the bottom of the mountain and beech nuts on the ridge above with a beaver pond and thicket for cover between the two food sources. I found bear sign while scouting for deer season and it seemed that the bear was spending a lot of time in the area. So basically I hunted that bear like I would a whitetail. I am not sure about calling them in. I know they can smell a meal 5 miles away so maybe trying scents. Good luck.

I am sorry, and I don't mean to offend anyone that has or will participate in the ice challenge. I am getting kind of sick of getting nominated on Face Book. I am just not amused with it I guess. To each their own, but I want my ice clean and rattling around in my glass at the end of a long hot day of work. Maybe I'm weird, but one thing I am not is a trend follower. Every time I see one of these videos, all I can think is "flock, little sheep, flock". This challenge lacks individualism. Though I have read that some people are taking it to the extreme with dump trucks and stuff. So I know there are people thinking the same as I, they are just choosing to look for a way to make it more original and I am not so props to you. So there is hope I suppose.

Hand made stuff is usually better than store bought stuff. These look great. I am not into duck or goose hunting, but these lanyards look like they would be perfect for holding the many various calls needed for waterfowl hunting.